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I'm in the UK and was fine for me. Have you left your porn vpn on?
lemmy.zip is blocked in the UK
lemmy.zip is agressively blocking VPNs.
I'm using a ProtonVPN server in Marseille and it's the only domain I absolutely can't visit (I have a lot of captchas otherwise though)
We dont actually block VPNs, but we do block ASNs where we get abuse traffic. Just so happens that Proton VPNs servers in France are on that ASN.
I get that, this is more an issue I guess with instances that were federated and now are not in the UK. It isn't handled that gracefully - but hey not my issue
My response wasn't regarding the geoblock, but to the above poster saying we block VPNs (which isn't true)
But just so you're aware, we dont geoblock federation traffic and all our posts, comments etc are federated without issue.
The only thing geoblocked is the UIs, so UK visitors can't access the UI.
If your client tries to direct you to lemmy.zip rather than the crossposted article, then that client isn't working properly and you should log a bug. Like any crosspost, the content federates fine.
Hope that clears it up for you.
I understand that, it is fine. My point was that having to mess around to see something is why users get fed up. Nothing that can be done about it really, it is a mess brought upon by a poorly worded and applied act that really doesn't do the simple things it set out to do...
Do you know why?
UK OSA Act ie the porn act
Don't know why I expected something interesting from the Brits but I looked at lemmy.zip posts and was a bit disappointed. Is there a list of the websites blocked in the UK maybe with rates and comments what you definitely should not visit and such?
And as if by magic...
https://www.blocked.org.uk/osa-blocks
Thanks. Still no porn though, mostly tech related websites. Why are they banned by osa?
Because... the OSA is badly worded, pretty damn oppressive and the penalties are so high that if they enforced them then well, pretty much ANY decent website will cease to be available in the UK. Simple really, plus it doesn't do anything like it should do as users just magically appear to be in a different country...
What you describe sounds either like incompetence, or like perfect censorship tool as intended. Wonder what it is.
So ban to vpn is next?
Nope - banning vpn's would be simple stoopid (!). Especially as most businesses rely on them for online security as does the government...
I don't think anything like that exists, way too easy to bypass them right now